April 15, 2007: MLB started the tradition of wearing # 42 for Jackie Robinson
Back in 2007, MLB celebrated the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson starting for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The Padres played the Dodgers on ESPN. It was a special night. Every Dodger was wearing # 42. They’ve been wearing # 42 every April 15th since to remember Robinson.
Of course, we forget that Jackie died young. I was reminded of this by watching an old video from the ’72 World Series (his last public appearance) and reading Taking a Bat to Prejudice By George Will:
“By 1956, Robinson’s last season, he had lost his second-base position to Jim Gilliam, a black man. Robinson died of diabetes-related illnesses in 1972, at 53, the same age Babe Ruth was when he died. Ruth reshaped baseball; Robinson’s life still reverberates through all of American life. As Martin Luther King Jr., who was 18 in 1947, was to say, Robinson was “a sit-inner before sit-ins, a freedom rider before freedom rides.”
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